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Tropical Brazil faces special architectural problems. The sunlight is dazzling; the air steamy. To circumvent that conjunction of the elements, Niemeyer, like other young graduates, first experimented with balconies and broad windows. Then, in 1936, a new wind swept Brazilian architectural planning. Famed French Architect Le Corbusier came along with his concrete piers and the brise-soleil (i.e., sun break). Niemeyer took to Le Corbusier's modernism as readily as an earlier generation of Brazilians had taken to France's Beaux Arts styles of the Second Empire. Most notably, he helped design a new home for the Ministry...
...theater is completely rebuilt. We asked a city architect why it had been rushed when housing was so desperately short. He answered: "We wanted our people, who have endured so much, to have some happiness now and a visible pledge of more happiness to come...
...that stood out most prominently in the sun's slanting rays was the theater. On the high point of the bluff above the water, with its white-columned portico and low classical pediment, it recalled the Parthenon above Athens. The resemblance was not just physical. For what the architect told us was true. Since dialectical materialism rules out a next life, the good things of this life are the best hope the Soviet system has to offer. What their temples meant to the ancient Greeks, theaters symbolize to modern Russians. They are indeed "happiness and a pledge of more...
With all of his idealism, Gropius has articulated the most down-to-earth of educational methods stressing that an architect cannot be a sissy with a mere hand for sketching but must understand materials and production systems as well. A prophet of prefabrication since 1910, he heads the prefab field in the U. S. today with his General Panel Corporation. A distinctive Gropius feature, "component parts," provides for the manufacture of separate construction units, rather than whole houses, ready for assembly to suit any man's individuality. In intelligent use of prefabrication he feels much of our housing problem will...
...compound of dreamer and practical masterbuilder which hoists Gropius to his commanding position. Colleagues may gain his grasp of industrial civilization's new demands upon the architect, but they are not likely to catch up to the stride of his dynamic evolving personal philosophy. To the older elements in the profession everything he stands for is still poison: these are men who are aware that the New Architecture steadily gains ground but who are doggedly wed to pat formulas and the Roman column...